Regional high streets in flux after retail collapse, traffic reversal and Woolworths sign sale

A UK high street retail giant has collapsed into administration, with 1,800 jobs lost and debts of more than £46 million, the Cotswold Journal reported [1].

In Calne, Wiltshire, the reopening of a pedestrianised High Street to traffic is to be made permanent after a trial, the Wiltshire Times said [2].

In Somerset, a set of illuminated letters that once hung above a Woolworths shop in Crewkerne is to be sold at auction, having spent much of the last 17 years in an attic, according to the Somerset County Gazette [3].

Taken together, the three reports point to different kinds of change affecting high streets across the region, from business collapse and traffic policy to the market for retail heritage [1][2][3].